In my years as an entrepreneur I’ve seen the disconnect between professional women and sales. For many women sales sounds like a bad word (hell! I resisted putting it in the title) yet they’re imperative for a thriving business.

Sales conjures the image of the slimy used car salesman selling a dilapidated lemon to a poor, young and unsuspecting family.

Unlike this person, you care deeply about people, the work you do and making a difference for your clients. Your current clients love you and the results you help them get, but you hate sales. You KNOW that you’re good at what you do but you fear sounding salesy or being pushy. Even you hate being sold and you don’t want people to feel poorly about you.

You want to distance yourself as far away from sales as possible, YET you need income.

What if all of this can be different for you?

What if sales is not only the most necessary aspect of your business but can also be the most LOVING aspect too.

Here’s what I’ve discovered…

That my ability to sell my services had everything to do about what I believed about myself, my potential client and the world. When I shifted my beliefs, my sales skyrocketed.

My team and I not only reached our goals but we exceeded our goals both as a team and personally.

My own personal transformation came when:

I was willing to speak into my prospective clients fears and doubts and help them see beyond them….even it made me uncomfortable.

I let my worthiness be independent of results. I stopped allowing the “no” mean that I was a failure or that people were rejecting “me”

I could be the person my prospective client needed rather than what they wanted. I had to be willing to be fully honest with them even if it made me uncomfortable. They appreciated it, and most often helped them to become a client.

I fully understood that the money objection is never about money. Money is just the most accepted excuse and it covers the real reason which usually comes down to self-doubt—either they don’t believe in you or they don’t believe in themselves.

Sales is about it LOVE. Your desire to serve and be financially secure is your birthright. You get to have it all. It’s literally written in your soul to succeed. When you allow your sales to be an expression of your love and you soul’s light success is yours.

Message me to learn more about how you can grow your business by transforming sales with your soul’s essence.

1. The sacred feminine is fluid and flowing. It's in consistent motion flowing like water. Water in flow can't be stopped. Consider a river...flowing unending around all obstacles and cutting through the Earth. Use this energy to keep moving and taking action on that which you are resisting. Resistance is the opposite of your nature, therefore it exhausts you. The act of "not doing" what must be done is actually more exhausting than the act of doing it. Imagine the task at hand is the stone and you are the river. Gracefully, yet relentlessly you complete the task at hand powerfully yet with ease. The river doesn't try to flow it just does...and so do you.

2. You are biologically an Alchemist. Alchemists transform matter and energy. You are biologically an alchemist. You naturally create something from nothing. Procrastination is a manifestation of the energies of fear and overwhelm. Imagine yourself transforming that fear and overwhelm to love. Then do the task(s) with love, knowing that having the task done frees you up to feel more love ...and receive more love because your energy isn't being psychically drained by the dread of the thought of doing it and by the thought of not having it done. Let doing be an act of love.

3. Finally, the sacred feminine is all-embracing and accepting. Procrastinating comes from judging the task as undesirable. Drop the judgement and accept it...just be neutral to it or even be in gratitude for it. It's in front of you for a reason and it's even a gift to you. Be in gratitude. Paying bills: be grateful someone trusts you enough to render you services, be grateful for the services. Doing taxes: be grateful for the income to be taxed. Organizing: be grateful for the stuff that needs to be organized, your clear mind that can organize, your able body that can move around to do the organizing. You get the point.

You can use your sacred feminine Goddess energies to transmute any energy to create anything you want. When you do this you are making sacred every task no matter how mundane. Life truly become magical and FUN!

I start my day energized, motivated, inspired and confident. It's the only way that I want to start the day. And I've learned over the years that I get to start every. single. day this way.

And you do to.

Here's how:

1. This one happens the night before: Before going to sleep I tell myself three times that I will wake up at 4:30 feeling refreshed, rejuvenated and enthusiastic. Most people go to bed dreading an early morning which programs their mind to dread the morning. Change your mind around how you awaken.

2. I read my decisions about who I am and how I want to show up in the world. This is a very thoughtful exercise that I challenge you to do in the next 24 hours. How do you want to show up in the world? For example I have decided that I show up for every person in my life with compassion, love and patience. In my journal I have written: I AM a loving, compassionate and patient person. (I've never been perfect at this but by making it a focus I'm getting better and better).

You can also include money decisions, for example, I'm exactly who I need to be to make X amount of money this week. I see every opportunity and I leap with confidence and courage.

These decisions are based on my goals and replace fears that I may have. For instance if I don't know how to make X amount of money I just made the decision that I'm already the person who knows how to do it.

It's important to read your decisions everyday because they are changing your beliefs. If you don't put them in the forefront of your mind daily and with intention to live them you will just continue to live from your limiting beliefs.

3. I work out. I work out in the morning and I've found that pushing myself beyond my comfort zone in the gym or during a run has helped me to live outside my comfort zone in business and every other area of my life. If you want to have an impact whether it's on your family or the planet, you have to push beyond your comfort zone. After my work-out, I already feel like a success because I did something hard that I didn't want to do. Plus my blood is pumping and I'm energized.

I challenge you to begin implementing these three routines for the next 30 days and see just how much it improves our mood and your productivity.

First, write your decisions that you will ready every morning before you even step out of bed.

Here are some of mine:

The universe is collaborating on my behalf.

Every action I take, every person I talk with turns to gold.

I'm instantly aware of my intuitive leads and I take immediate courageous action.

I'm exactly who I need to be to make the greatest impact.

Hugs,

Michelle

]]>https://athenarisingnow.com/3-morning-rituals-to-power-your-day/feed/0Pt. 2 The 4 Core Wounds & Why You Feel Like and Imposterhttps://athenarisingnow.com/pt-2-the-4-core-wounds-why-you-feel-like-and-imposter/
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In a recent article I wrote about the first core wound being guilt. The second wound is a close relative of guilt, it’s shame. Whereas guilt says “I did something bad”, shame is even more painful as it says, “I am bad”.

Conscious or unconscious shame is often an illusive emotion as it’s so painful, I find that many women have repressed it so deeply that they don’t even realize that it’s at the core of their decision-making process.

Harboring shame contributes to feelings of unworthiness. Makes sense that if you believe that you are a bad person that you would naturally be unworthy of your desires and dreams.

Shame leads to an inability to trust yourself. Again, this makes perfect sense. If you believe yourself to be a bad person how would you trust yourself.

This wound perpetuates the under estimating and under-valuing of your capabilities and your worth. When you are ashamed you will naturally avoid being seen. Hiding, for fear that your innate badness will be discovered, and you will be rejected and/or abandoned. This leads to over-doing, people pleasing and self-sacrificing behaviors in order to make up for your perceived inadequacies.

Where does this shame come from?

In our society shame is perpetuated in the common experience of victim blaming. Consider that in the case of sexual assault that often the first question asked is how is she at fault? And when as the victim, you can’t pin point what you consciously did, the next “logical” answer is that there is something within you that attracts bad things to happen to you. If you attract it you must at some level deserve it.

Victim blaming is a tool that we all turn to, to feel safe. If we can explain that bad things happen for reasons that we can prevent we can feel safe, unfortunately the victim become the responsible party rather than the actual responsible party.

Although I use sexual assault as an example and 1 our of 4 girls will be sexually assaulted by the age of 18 years old, it is not the only reason why women and girls may feel ashamed.

Shame is often used as a tool by society as a whole to control individuals. It’s definitely a tool used by parents to manipulate children to do as they’re told. Consider how many tijmes you may have heard or even used the phrase “shame on you”, or you were called a ‘bad girl’ for misbehaving. Shame is an implication of being punished, more often than not our parents didn’t make the distinction between doing something bad and being bad when they were doling out the punishment.

When you harbor shame, you are less likely to speak your truth, ask for what you want, or to ask for what you really deserve because your concept of what you deserve is misaligned from the truth.

The four core wounds are why smart, powerful and capable women make far less than they should, find themselves in abusive relationships, self-medicate with food, alcohol and/or shopping.

You can break free from these core wounds by discovering how you are being re-wounded by media messaging and heal the wounds of the past. You can truly value yourself and create the life you want.

She realized now that we are in the #metoo era how the John Hughs movie perpetuates the subjugation of women. In one scene Judd Nelson’s character looks up Molly Ringwald’s skirt when he is under the table and inappropriately touches her.

Ringwald also highlights how throughout the movie Nelson’s character sexually harasses Claire, Ringwald’s character. The harassment becomes more intense the more Claire rejects him…then at the end of the movie they are a couple.

Ringwald states, “ "If attitudes toward female subjugation are systemic, and I believe that they are, it stands to reason that the art we consume and sanction plays some part in reinforcing those same attitudes."

I agree. Generation after generation are being informed by the media in social and relational behavior.

But for me this has always begged the questions: when/where did female subjugation begin? And why is it so pervasive?

Why is it that there is a sense of entitlement by men to women’s bodies?

It comes from the bible actually…

Consider Genesis 3:16: To the woman he (God) said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” (NIV)

Is it any wonder that we have come to this era of #metoo? I mean when God says so…who’s to question right?

I have been sharing on Facebook about women not trusting themselves and how that impacts their lives and why it’s incredibly important for us to listen to our intuition so that we can discern truth from agenda.

And this Bible quote is one VERY important reason we must become more discerning.

Before you start that hate mail to me, I want you to know that I think the Bible is filled with a lot of powerful, insightful and God inspired wisdom. But Genesis 3:6-23 is not God inspired.

It’s a parable written to explain why women were already being ruled over by men and why they should continue to be. It’s obvious humans, mainly men, are guilty of too much self-projection on to God, making him in the image of man with his same short-comings.

If this is rattling your foundational beliefs and you’re feeling emotionally triggered, I invite you to take a deep breath and consider how subjugating women, blaming them for the fall of man and eliminating a feminine deity from our religions have affected our world.

We fear for our daughters safety. One if four girls will be raped before she is 18 years old, tens of thousands of women and girls go missing EVERY day.

Our planet (Mother Gaia) is being destroyed environmentally.

Men and boys being denied the right to trust their innate feminine by acknowledging their emotions are becoming mass murders.

As women we don’t trust ourselves to truly make a difference…when in all reality we are the only one’s that can. As women we see potential and possibility with our hearts…not with the limitation of the mind.

That portion of the Bible was used precisely to subjugate women. My unconditionally loving God would never do that because my Mother/Father God knows the long-term repercussions of denying the feminine in men and women…and we are living those repercussions now.

Telling women that they are to be ruled over by men because she is untrustworthy and the proof is that God said so was a powerful tool to shut women up. And it worked!

How many of you reading this have a problem speaking your truth?

The jig is up. Our planet needs us women to step up into our insightful, intuitive, cooperative, collaborative, fiercely loving power to save the world.

I saw the movie "I Can Only Imagine" the true story about Bart Millard, a Christian musical artist and his hit single. I cried throughout the movie.

My heart was broken open.

The movie took me back to the 1980's and the faith of my youth. Christian music played a big part in my life back then.

My faith shifted after I was deeply disappointed by the parishioners and the pastors of my church. They broke my heart and my eyes had been opened to their hypocrisy.

After that I dove whole-heartedly into metaphysics and began researching the history of religion including paganism. It was in paganism that I found my heavenly mother. The unconditionally loving, nurturing, female deity that looked like me that I so deeply craved.

Today, Easter, as I was deeply craving inspiration for my soul, I was led to this movie. In the movie I could see the Heavenly Father that I had fallen in love with as a child.

And what happened next, and I'm crying as I write this, my unconditionally loving Heavenly Father married my unconditionally loving Heavenly Mother, the Sacred Feminine. the Heavenly trinity is whole again within me.

I AM the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine.

You see, I rejected the God of my youth after my experience at the church. Then I rejected the Bible the day that I first read the Adam and Eve story in Genesis. (I'm honestly not sure how I didn't read that story as a child in the church for 6 years). I share in my book, Women: From Profit to Power, that when I read that God punished Eve with pain in childbirth it felt like a knife in my heart.

Suddenly I realized that the God I had so loved wanted me to suffer...believed that I deserved to suffer.

I felt that rejection and judgment deeply so I rejected him and his book.

I had just given birth (a very painful and long labor) a year earlier and in the midst of post-partum depression my intuition told me that that was not how childbirth was meant to be. So, I set out to do whatever I could to change the experience of childbirth for other women. It was just months after getting my Hypno-birthing certification that I read that Bible passage.

From then on my work has been about awakening women to their power by healing the four core wounds of the feminine.

Today, in that movie, bawling my eyes out, I realized how much I have missed my Heavenly Father. I also realized that I can have my Heavenly Father without guilt and shame and have my Sacred Feminine as well in fact it’s necessary.

My point in sharing this with you is to help you see how the separation has shown up in your life.

Where have you become separated from your sacred?

Do you find yourself a broken marriage?

Do you feel broken, inadequate or that you just don’t measure up?

Do you doubt that you have anything that others would want?

Knowing that you are sacred and feeling the presence of the Divine within you is imperative to knowing your value. It’s imperative to living your vision and impacting the world.

Here are two steps to begin to bridge that separation:

First…

Know that the separation is just a story. Just as a drop of ocean has the entire ocean in it, you have the Divine within you. Allow yourself to feel the presence within you.

If your response is “I don’t know how to feel that”…then pretend you do. Ask yourself these questions:

How would I feel to be the physical representation of the Divine?

How would I stand/walk/move in the world?

What would I say?

How would I love?

Who would I love?

When would I love?

Would I love myself?

Then…

Close your eyes…

See, feel and experience being held in the arms of your heavenly mother and father. Do this in what ever way works for you. Maybe one parent at a time or both at once. This is YOUR reunion. Do what feels good to you.

They each have a message for you…

What is that message?

Feel their words reverberate in your Soul. Receive them into your heart.

Journal about your experience.

How does it feel to be deeply loved and received unconditionally by your creators?

I would love to hear about your experience.

In Love & Light,

Michelle

]]>https://athenarisingnow.com/how-i-lost-found-my-religion-today/feed/0Do You Feel Like an Impostor? Here’s Why…https://athenarisingnow.com/do-you-feel-like-an-impostor-heres-why/
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Do fear you’re going to be found out? Do you worry that all of the accolades you receive professionally and personally are illusions and that if people really knew you, they’d see that you’ve been faking it all along?

Do you feel like you can never do enough or do well enough, no matter how much you do or how well you do?

Do you forget to recognize your successes and your strengths thinking you should have done more?

If you’re a woman you probably said yes to most if not all of these questions.

I’ve been working with women to empower them for a decade and a half and I used to be shocked by the powerful women running million-dollar businesses when they would share with me their fear of being discovered as the fraud they felt like…

Or the woman who came within months of losing her entire multi-million-dollar business because she had lost herself in her boyfriend at the time. He constantly required her to choose him or her business…she kept choosing him only to be shocked, ashamed and confused by the fact that she risked her livelihood for a man that ultimately left her for another woman.

Sound familiar?

I’ll admit, I’ve been this woman. Yearning so deeply to feel loved and validated by the man in my life. Trying to get him to prove to me my worthiness and value by loving me the way I deeply yearned to be loved.

Over the years, doing my heart-centered work and my own personal development work, I have discovered what motivates smart women, successful women to do exactly this.

Many women suffer from the Four Core Wounds.

Until these wounds are healed you will be stuck in people pleasing, saying ‘yes’ when you want to say “no”, proving your worth to others, feeling you can never DO enough, or BE enough and feeling like a fraud.

So many women come to me saying to me in total frustration…”I have been working on myself for so many years! I don’t understand why this (situation) still coming up!”

What breaks my heart the most is that they blame themselves. It’s not their fault. It’s not YOUR fault. It wasn’t my fault either.

The fault falls on the core wounds that women have embodied for millennia. In this article I will discuss the first core wound.

But first a disclaimer: I work with women. I’m intimately aware of how these wounds affect women. I’m not saying that men don’t have these wounds. They may, but how they show up for women is very female and for good reason.

The first core wound is guilt. In general woman carry a lot of guilt and if you’re mother it’s not only accepted that you will feel guilty, but it’s also expected.

Guilt is poison to your mind and body and will eventually manifest as physical pain. I have found that in my work with women diagnosed with fibromyalgia that addressing guilt first is powerfully effective in eliminating their pain and other symptoms.

Women feel guilty because women have become the scapegoats of society. It’s perfectly acceptable to blame women for the ills of the world. I’ll list a few:

we have been blamed for our first born being female,

rape victims have been blamed for being in the wrong place or being dressed inappropriately

mothers are blamed for their children’s behavior or how they turn out as adults

we are blamed for being stay-at-home moms i.e. we’re being lazy or unmotivated/not contributing to the family in an important way

we are blamed for being career women and not being more present and available to our children

we are blamed for being too seductive or being a cold-fish

when a man cheats we blame the wife for not meeting his needs

we blame the mistress for being the homewrecker

We feel responsible for the happiness of others and it’s a heavy cross to bear. Do you recognize the ‘damned if I do, damned if I don’t’ pattern?

The underlying beliefs of the guilt is “my decisions hurt people” and “my gain is their loss”.

Guilt leads to unworthiness. If you feel guilty, you believe that you don’t deserve the raise, the time off or to charge more for your services.

If you believe that your decisions hurt people you are indecisive and/or never choose you or what you want.

If you believe that my gain is their loss you will never ask for you what you want and even when it’s offered to you, you may deny it.

I invite you to become very self-aware over the next 24 hours to discover how often you feel guilty. Just notice how often you thin to yourself or say aloud, “I feel bad”. That is a clue to hidden guilt.

]]>https://athenarisingnow.com/do-you-feel-like-an-impostor-heres-why/feed/0Motherhood was Never Meant to be Your Leading Rolehttps://athenarisingnow.com/motherhood-was-never-meant-to-be-your-leading-role/
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I imagine that this message may not be the most popular but …I’m here to express truth…as I see it and as I’ve experienced it. The version of motherhood that we've learned couldn't be further than the truth!

And the truth is: motherhood was never meant to be your leading role. In fact, when you make it your leading role, your highest priority-- even above yourself, you actually rob your children.

There! I said it. Stay with me here:
Being the self-sacrificing woman for your family actually robs and dis-empowers them. The idea that your family/children should be your top priority at all costs was a lie imposed upon you to distract you from your own deeper soul’s purpose.

Here’s another hard truth…your kids don’t need you as much as you think they do.

If this is hard for you to read…then keep reading. I’m a mom of 4 children and early in my motherhood I was the self-sacrificing mother…the attachment parenting, co-sleeping, the homeschooling, always available, never want my child/ren to suffer mom.

Oh and yes, the angry and resentful mom. Not everyday was I angry and resentful. It would slowly build, day after day, week after week, until I would explode and scare everyone into their best behavior until the cycle would begin again.

But I’m going to be super transparent here, in hopes that you will do the same for yourself. What I didn’t know then that I know clearly now, was that I was trying to prove my worthiness with my role as good mom & good wife. I see this in a lot of women.

I thought it was about the kids, but what I realized years later was that what I passed on to my children was my own sense of unworthiness. On top of that, because I was ever-present, I actually made them need me. What I wanted to do was raise confident, self-actualized, empowered adults.

But here’s another truth-bomb: I couldn’t!

Because I wasn’t any of those things.

When I became self-actualized, empowered and confident I could see all of their potential and I could cultivate it within them… and they evolved…all of them. It didn’t matter how old or young they were.

Your children will love themselves as much as you love yourself. They don’t love themselves as much as you love them.

You will see in your children what you see in yourself. If you are filled with self-doubt, you will project that on to them.

My point in sharing this with you is so that you stop putting YOU on hold, thinking that everyone else should be your priority first, that is somehow makes you worthy and good enough. You already are worthy and good enough and when you treat yourself as such, your children (big & small) will treat themselves as such.

You will show them what is possible. You are the Divine Feminine, the Divine Mother infinitely whole and complete. Live from that space and your life will ROCK and so will your kid’s lives.

Are you ready to truly embody the Sacred Feminine in your life? Book a calland discover how by living your Soul's purpose blesses you and the ones you love.

Studies have shown, as expressed in the book “The Confidence Code” by Katty Kay & Claire Shipman that when asked, men tend to over-estimate their abilities and women under-estimate theirs. Yet when comparing actual results men and women perform equally.

Why do you suppose this is?

Consider for a moment the conditioning we experience as boys and girls growing up…and not just us but our foremothers and forefathers as well. For generations we have been conditioned by the same stories. Consider the story that men are created in the image of God, women created as a second thought (second best) from which no image exists. Then add the blame for man’s separation from God when Eve ate of the forbidden fruit. (I could write a book on these consequences.) Religion after religion around the world have separation stories in which women are blamed.

I’ve been working with women for 16 years and I’ve found within my clients as well as within myself is an underlying shame and guilt that informs every thought we think and every decision we make.

We have been conditioned to think, feel and believe a certain way about being female. By conditioned I mean brainwashed. We’ve heard the same stories countless times. The truth is that conditioning is not true and by no means is it the word of God.

Imagine how you may feel about yourself had you had a Divine Heavenly Mother that bled between her creation phases and celebrated the cycles of her body. Imagine having a Heavenly Mother who knew without knowing why she knew (intuition), who celebrated her emotions, who celebrated her sexuality as a vital force, who looks like you. What if we had a Heavenly Mother who loved herself and cherished her daughters. How would you be different today? How would your relationships be different...especially with your daughters.

What if being female was celebrated? How would you feel about yourself? What choices would you make for your life? Imagine the level of self-worth you would have…

The Sophia (Feminine Christ Consciousness) has returned to the planet. She is stirring within you. You have a Heavenly Mother. Are you ready to receive her?

Knowing that you are the Sacred Daughter of the Sacred Mother, you become innately aware of your value and worthiness. It is from this divine worthiness that you can birth/manifest all that you desire.

What are your thoughts?

Please share your respectfully written comments in the comment section. I look forward to hearing from you.

]]>https://athenarisingnow.com/how-the-absence-of-our-divine-mother-has-robbed-us/feed/0The ONE Thing I Did to Have My Best Year Yethttps://athenarisingnow.com/best-year-yet/
https://athenarisingnow.com/best-year-yet/#respondMon, 23 Oct 2017 21:25:16 +0000http://athenarisingnow.com/?p=1248Continue Reading]]>I’ve had the most extraordinary year of my life.

Yes! 2017 has been my best year yet. And I’ll tell you why.

It's all because I made two decisions.

In November of 2016 I decided to stop allowing money to make my decisions. That if I truly wanted something, I was not going to allow finances to stop me from having it.

I made the second decision in January 2017 that I was not going to do anything out of obligation again. If I couldn’t do something with love, then I wouldn’t do it at all. Seriously, I wouldn’t want ANYONE to do something with me or for me because they felt they HAD to. So I imagined that other’s felt the same way. It was really a decision to behave as if my happiness mattered.

Making these two decisions required that I behave in completely different ways than I ever had.

For my entire life, I had not hired people, bought things, or gone places because of the price tag. In 2017, I simply asked myself, “Do I really want that experience or that thing?”

If the answer was yes, then no matter the price, I went for it and I figured out how to pay for it.

I stopped allowing money to tell me no. I started saying YES to me…then going to the effort to make it happen.

Secondly, I stopped saying YES to other people. If I was asked to do something or go somewhere if I wasn’t completely excited about it then I said no.

One thing I want you to know…is that every single time I took new action…I was filled with fear.

Every. Single. Time.

Saying YES to me and NO to others was a whole new experience for me.

And it scared me.

But check out what I’ve done this year by feeling the fear and doing it anyway:

I bought my dream car

I got braces after wanting them for 5 years (because I thought I couldn’t afford it)

I did a full series of Rolfing after wanting to for 15 years (because I thought I couldn’t afford it)

I gave up my office because I love working from home (I was afraid of disappointing clients – some were disappointed)

I did my first endurance challenge called Hell On The Hill and got to hang out with millionaires and billionaires (It was a big financial stretch for me and the most amazing weekend of my life…so far!)

I took my first big stage (big financial stretch and vulnerability stretch as I got REAL honest about my destined work)

I published my book. And kept asking for what I wanted in design until I LOVED it (instead of settling…yes, I think I was annoying, but it was worth it)

I’ve made more money than ever in my business!

That’s a pretty darn long list:

And here’s the thing. I didn’t do it perfectly! Sometimes I fell into old behaviors and did stuff I didn’t want to do. But still! Look at those results…and I still have two more months!

Here’s what else: I didn’t do it alone.

I could not have done it alone.

It’s human nature to fall back into old patterns. To allow fear to win. And the reality is that we can fall back into old behaviors and not even know it. That’s why you need a coach, a mentor, to support you through the fear, to open your eyes to your patterns and remind you why you’ve made those decisions.

What do you want to create in your life?

Are you ready to have a rocking 2018?

Let’s talk!

Contact me at Michelle@AthenaRisingNow.com and we can schedule your complimentary strategy call!